Graham Greasley - Historian
From Normans to Navvies.
A look at the major changes that have impacted on the village over the past thousand years from the building of the Church to the Town today. Graham Greasley will be describing his perspective about the people who worked in the mines, built houses and worked in local factories.
Graham Greasley is passionate about protecting our heritage and has an extensive collection of postcards / photographs and old documents relating the history of the town. Graham feels that it is important to record as much as we can about the town do that future generations will be able to look back and see how the town developed into what we see today.
From his perspective it is very much about the people who worked in the mines, built houses and worked in local factories and how they spent their spare time; especially in an era when there was no internet etc. These are times when people went to church or chapel every Sunday, and a time when pubs in Wales didn’t open on Sundays. Graham spends time talking to various groups and promotes the area, hoping to raise awareness of the rich heritage of Chirk.